[28.02] The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a 1,000 tonne
heavy water Cerenkov detector situated 2,000 meters
underground in INCO's Creighton mine near Sudbury, Ontario,
Canada. The project is a Canadian, US and UK collaboration.
Through the use of heavy water SNO will be able to detect a
number of neutrino reactions, including one sensitive
specifically to solar electron neutrinos and another to all
active neutrino types. With these two reactions the detector
will be able to search for neutrino flavor change without
the requirement of electron neutrino flux normalization by
solar model calculations. It will have a relatively high
counting rate, on the order of 10 per day for solar
neutrinos, and will also provide unusual sensitivity for
measurements of other solar neutrino properties, atmospheric
neutrinos and suprenova neutrinos. For supernova neutrinos,
SNO will have high sensitivity for muon and tau neutrinos
and anti-neutrinos as well as specific sensitivity for
electron neutrinos and anti-neutrinos. It will have
excellent timing and moderate directional sensitivity. The
observatory has been in almost continuous operation since
May, 1999.

SNO Collaboration: Queen's University, University of British
Columbia, CRPP at Carleton University, University of Guelph,
Laurentian University, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, University of
Washington, Oxford University.

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